- HOW TO THREAD MY BOBBIN ON SINGER RED EYE 66 SERIAL NUMBERS
- HOW TO THREAD MY BOBBIN ON SINGER RED EYE 66 SERIAL NUMBER
The presser foot lever was loose and that took him the longest but he got it fixed! It still needs some cleaning and I didn't have a table, hence the search for the table that came with the Con-Sews machine, for $50!!! And we are still planning on buying the other Red Eye 66 with table, extra bobbins, feet and a book. He'd get one part to move then would work on another part. LOL! Then his interest was sparked and he started looking at the one we had. Then, when we started looking for a treadle machine, the one we looked at was identical. Oh, my brother gave the machine to me right away! My husband looked at all the rust and said, "No way." He wanted to throw it out but of course, I just set it aside. I did find Alex Askaroff and did see where he told about the machine not being sold for years after it was produced because of the war. Those round bobbins hold more thread than the vibrating shuttle ones do, and a model 66 will fit in that cabinet beautifully. You might want to see if you can talk your brother out of that Red Eye 66. Yeah, that no electricity factor makes treadle machines very attractive to many people.
HOW TO THREAD MY BOBBIN ON SINGER RED EYE 66 SERIAL NUMBER
Sewing machine expert Alex Askaroff knows of a verifiable case of a Singer sewing machine that had a serial number allotted in 1939, but didn't get sold brand-new to a customer until 1946 - because of WWII: In 1917, WWI was still underway, and Singer, like many companies, was heavily involved in supporting the war effort. However, there are a lot of factors that affect production, such as work week length, worker strikes, factory equipment breakdown or major maintenance, and the biggie: war. To narrow it down further, you could do a little math and figure out approximately what day it was. The next block of numbers slated for model 66 machines was allotted September 5 1917, so chances are, your machine was produced by then. The reason I gave you a second line is to give you an idea of when your machine rolled off of the assembly line.
HOW TO THREAD MY BOBBIN ON SINGER RED EYE 66 SERIAL NUMBERS
The most pertinent line of information is the first one, which 'decodes' as: a block of 50,000 consecutive serial numbers (5521436 through 5571435) was allotted by the central office to one of the factories (in this case, Elizabethport, because that's where G serial number machines were made) on July 3 1917, and all were destined to be stamped into the beds of model 66 machines. Here are the pertinent lines in the G serial number table: You probably did misread the serial number table it's easy to have your eyes skip a digit. Vintage sewing machine enthusiasts everywhere are gnashing their teeth. Your brother found a Singer Red Eye 66 sitting by the side of the road? >8-0 } -)īut it sure does look to me like a Singer 27. I really just wanted a treadle machine to sew on if and when blackouts happen but I certainly have gotten sucked into the history.Ībhege69, the Con-Sew threw me off, too. I will copy them and continue to do research and start to learn some history of these machines. The Red Eye, which my brother found by the side of the road, has a serial number of G5570779 and does not have the vibrating bobbin. Either I am reading the serial numbers wrong or something else is going on. me up with 1895 but I am confused because I have another machine and it's serial number, I thought dated it to 1910 as a model #27 but clearly it is not because it is a Red Eye. I did look up the serial number for Singer and ca. However, it's a lot to sift through, so if you have questions, you can just ask them here in a comment. In case I forgot anything, here is my collection of vintage sewing machine links: The Smithsonian has some information about Consolidated Sewing Machine Corporation, but unfortunately, none of it seems to be online: I don't know which of Singer's factories made that head, but here are some background links for the two biggest: The cabinet looks like Singer's Cabinet Table No. I don't recognize that decal set, so perhaps Con-Sew put their own decals on it: I can't see the face plate or rear access panel, but here is a gallery of them for you to browse: There is no model number information in the Singer no-alpha prefix serial number table, but just at a glance, I can see that it's some flavor of a vibrating shuttle (the tell-tale trapezoidal inspection plate, the circular needle plate, and the dual slide plates):īecause of the low-mounted bobbin winder (not to mention the age), it's probably either a model 27 or a model 28 (the 28 is just a three-quarters sized 27): If that "13023874" serial number is a Singer serial number, that would date it to 1895: